Improvement in crate-hasps



J'. De LAMA'IER.

CRATE-HASP.

NO.-175,5Z. Patented March 21, 1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN DE LAMATER, OF MILFORD, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT & CO., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CRATE-HASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,052, dated March 21, 1876 application filed March 2, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN DE LAMATER, of Milford, in the county of Sussex and State of Delaware, have invented a new Improvement in Crate-llusps andI do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in- Figure 1, front view; Fig. 2, side view; Fig. 3, lower-end view, looking up.

This invention relates to a device for securing the covers of crates for the transportation of fruit, the object being a locking device which, while easily disengaged, cannot be accidentally so; and it consists in a spring plate or hasp, slotted to pass over a righ-tangular hook, and with its end turned outward, and with a notch in the said end, combined with a right-angularrotating hook, which in one position will allow the slot in the hasp to pass over it, and then turned into the said notch, will secure the hasp, as hereinafter described.

A represents the crate, and B the cover. To the cover the hasp C is attached, and this is elastic and attached to the cover so that its normal condition will be projecting from the crate, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2.

Near the end of the hasp a slot, D, is formed, and the end of the hasp is turned outward, as at a, and in this turned portion a notch, d, is formed. On the crate, a right-angular or bent hook or staple,E, is arranged, which will turn freely in a plane substantially parallel to the surface of the crate, and so that when turned upward or into line with the slot D, as indicated in broken lines, the hasp may be pressed toward the crate over-the hook, and then the hook rotated until it passes into the notch d in the end, the elasticity of the hasp forcing it into engagement with the hook through the said notch, so as to prevent the accidental turning of the book, but by de pressing the hasp the hook may be turned for disengagement, a condition not liable to be accidentally performed.

I do not broadly claim a slotted elastic hasp, with a staple to be turned out of line with the said slot after the hasp has been passed over the staple, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I claim The combination of the elastic hasp C, slot D, and notch 01 in its turned-up end, with the rotating hook E, substantially as described.

JOHN DE LAMATER. Witnesses:

J OSEPHUS STEVENS, N. P. HIOKMAN. 

